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Malwarebytes released a fix for a known issue breaking Google Chrome on its customers' systems after installing the Windows 11 22H2 KB5027231 cumulative update released last week. Malwarebytes has now fixed the conflict with the Chrome web browser on up-to-date Windows 11 systems.

The Windows 11 22H2 KB5027231 cumulative update released during this month's Patch Tuesday also breaks Google Chrome on systems protected by Cisco and WatchGuard EDR and antivirus solutions. As BleepingComputer reported on Wednesday, Windows admins and users report having issues launching the web browser after installing the KB5027231 Windows 11 updates.

Malwarebytes confirmed today that the Windows 11 22H2 KB5027231 cumulative update released this Patch Tuesday breaks Google Chrome on its customers' systems. The company published a support article today confirming the Malwarebytes conflict with Google Chrome after installing the June 2023 Patch Tuesday updates on Windows 11 systems.

Google Chrome is getting new security-enhancing features for the built-in Password Manager, making it easier for users to manage their passwords and stay safe from account hijacking attacks. The Chrome Password Manager is an integrated part of Google's services that can manage and autofill credentials on the Chrome browser and other Google software products, syncing the login information across all apps used by the same Google Account.

Google has fixed a high-severity vulnerability in the Chrome browser that is being exploited by attackers. "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-3079 exists in the wild," the Chrome team says.

The second reserves 64 bits for storing a memory address where the text string of a customer's name can be found. As you can imagine, you'd better not mix up these two values, because a number that makes sense, and is safe, to use as a day number, such as 23157, would almost certainly be unsafe to use as a memory address.

Google has released a security update for Chrome web browser to address the third zero-day vulnerability that hackers exploited this year. Withholding technical information is the usual stance from Google when a new security issue is found.

Google on Monday released security updates to patch a high-severity flaw in its Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild.Tracked as CVE-2023-3079, the vulnerability has been described as a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine.

Google has removed from the Chrome Web Store 32 malicious extensions that could alter search results and push spam or unwanted ads. Cybersecurity researcher Wladimir Palant analyzed the PDF Toolbox extension available from Chrome Web Store and found that it included code that was disguised as a legitimate extension API wrapper.

Google has tripled the full reward amount for the first security bug report that includes a functional full chain exploit of its popular Chrome browser. Six months of higher rewards for a Chrome full chain exploit.